~ ~Poetry by Shirley Allard~

Purgatory

The winter’s freeze has stripped the trees at last
One lonesome leaf left dangling on the limb
And not unlike the days of winters past
Each day is prey to Mother Nature’s whim
The garden that was once a scape of green
Is covered now with crystal mounds of white
The path goes in and out and in between
And like a maze it leads us back to night
That beacon in the midnight sky prevails
As daylight finds another path to cross
My mind is on a distant wooded trail
A forest deep where you and I are lost
Discovering some new and sacred ground
And wishing only never to be found.

Shirley, if you’re keeping track, mark this down as one of my favorites! Almost makes me wonder why I have neglected poems for awhile….but there’s also the sad fact I can’t make mine flow as effortlessly as this comes off.